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British media, including the supposedly conservative ones, are supporting Obama and (especially) hounding Sarah Palin, with a ferocity unknown even to their American counterparts, and looking more like the Daily Kos than anything, so to speak, human. This is appalling in itself, and may well end up being disastrous if by any chance McCain and Palin win. These creatures are planting poisonous ideas in the average British reader, which will take decades to weed away. And incidentally, it does nothing to disprove my view that at the roots of all serious modern political conflict in the West there is abortion; for the British media and establishment, including the so-called conservatives, are completely sold on the practice, and anti-abortion forces are marginalized to an extent unknown and hard to believe in Italy or America. This goes back a long time - Margaret Thatcher always voted in favour of abortion. Now, Sarah Palin, simply by being who she is, is a living rebuke to all the abortion-is-necessary crowd; and this explains the ferocious hatred and the avalanche of pathological lies with which this attractive, polite, competent female politician has been welcomed. Find me another explanation that makes sense! It also accounts for the complete silence that has been enforced on anything that might make Obama, the most pro-abortion candidate in history, look bad or even moderately dubious. It is not about race; if Judge Clarence Thomas were running for President, he would be treated like Palin has been. It is not even about party; if Condoleeza Rice had run and got the Republican nomination, you can bet your life that she would have had a much smoother ride than Palin. She, after all, has no children. You cannot underrate the power of repressed and concealed guilt feelings, crawling under the skin of all the career women who got rid of unwanted babies in order to please bosses and boyfriends, and indeed among all the men who were complicit in their crimes or even demanded them; when faced with a brilliantly successful career woman who not only had five children, but opted against aborting even the disabled one. (I don't suppose it helps that she is beautiful and looks ten years younger than her age. The sheer unfairness of the distribution of beauty is salt on any open wound, and the wound in question is painful enough in the first place.) Sarah Palin is a mirror who tells them the truth about themselves; and it is a truth that they cannot bear to see.
The X Factor
If so, they're right to ignore the "Y" [the guilt over and lust for the power of infanticide] and stick to the claim of fact: Governor Palin is every bit as vile as her detractors claim.
But since it would be hard to compare being tempted by one's family ties into using your power to fire a man who is thoroughly deserving of being fired (even if no-one you knew had ever crossed his path); or making two or three poor appointments out of dozens, (which you then correct, when it becomes clear you erred) to the record of nearly every other U.S. Governor; Republican or Democrat... it's clear that, indeed, something is warping the perspective and the judgments of those calumniators. Unfortunately, in addition to having this modest perspective drummed out of any news anyone is likely to have consumed (most newspapers, magazines and television) there are very many people who believe that having certain policy positions (anti-abortion, pro-gun rights, etc.) automatically makes the holder thereof a person of egregious character, probably both hateful and stupid.
Thus your post would appear to have discovered what "Y" is, and is enlightening, and worthy of being addressed on it's own merits, is very unlikely to be appreciated by anyone at all--!